Target



Nov. 23, 1937.

I TNESSES: 325192)? M. G. ROSENGARTEN TARGET Filed June 17, 1936 INVENTOR: Mfichell 5. Rosznyarhm, BY 1 A TTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. 23, 1937 UNITE STATES TARGET Mitchell G. Rosengarten, Philadelphia, Pa.

Application June 17,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to targets suitable for use in connection with games or exercises in which a relatively soft, light disc-shaped missile is driven against the target, and more particularly to a novel combination of a target and a coacting missile-disc. In such games or exercises it is desirable that the missile shall adhere to the target in order that the part of the target struck may be better observed. and scored. According to my invention the target is a backing faced with projecting points or bristles, as for example, the clothing used for carding machines in the textile industry.

Clothing for cards customarily comprises a backing with short bristle wires supported in such relation to the backing as to project in parallel relation a certain distance from the face of the backing. I have discovered that the wires which thus project out from the face, and which in card clothing perform the usual carding function, are particularly adapted to receive and hold in place a suitable missile driven against them; and according to my invention, a target for this purpose is made of card clothing, or of a suitable backing with projecting wire points, and mounted or supported so that the face of the card clothing forms the face of the target.

I will illustrate and describe my invention as applicable to a game (called Clickit) simulating to some extent the game of golf, and in which a cardboard missile about the size of a golf ball is driven by a golf club against such a target. The target is marked with circles and it being the object of the player to drive the missile so as to hit the center of the target, it is desirable that the missile shall be retained wherever it may strike the target in order that the deviation of its flight from that which is desired may be observed. But although I thus show and describe this application of my invention, it must be understood that the scope of the invention is broader than this and not dependent upon the particular game played.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig. I represents in elevation a target with suitable supporting de vices constructed according to my invention.

Fig. II is a partial vertical section along the line IIII of Fig. I.

Fig. III is a similar section along the line IIIIII of Fig. I; and

Fig. IV shows in vertical section a variant construction.

The frame I of the target may be of any desired shape and made of any suitable material, but is preferably wood or metal. For purposes of firm support a thin back plate 2 extends from edge 1936, Serial No. 85,663

to edge of the frame and is secured toit. Upon this metal plate 2 is placed a backing 5 which supports wire points 6 suitably embedded or enmeshed in said backing. The backing 5 may be of fabric, rubber or leather, or other suitable material. The wires 6 are small, slightly flexible, and project from the face of the backing 5 sufiiciently to receive and support the missile as it strikes. This missile may be a circular disc '1 of cardboard. In the game to which I have referred it is of the diameter of a golf ball and is driven by a stroke from a golf club upon its periphery. If properly driven it flies straight to the target until the edge of the missile hits the face of the target. The cardboard is of sufiicient softness to enable the point of the wire or wires struck to penetrate the cardboard and thus support it or, should the edge of the missile pass between wires or lines thereof, it will nevertheless be supported by the resiliency of the wires for they are set in rows sufficiently close together to require deflec tion when the missile passes between them. Thus the plain, unbristled disc I is held by engagement of its margin with or amongst the target bristle wires 6. I have found that a missile of cardboard 39 thousandths of an inch thick works well in combination with card clothing in which the wires are set 33 thousandths of an inch apart.

It is preferable, but not necessary, that the projecting wires 6 be bent as shown in Fig. II of the drawing and that the target be so placed that the bend of the wires is toward the ground. The missile l is then driven upward from the ground and in its rising flight is the better intercepted and held by or impaled upon the metal points in case they be thus bent; but this is a matter of convenience and not absolutely necessary to my invention.

In Fig. II the surface of the target is covered by card clothing of a well known variety with wire staples penetrating a backing. In Fig. IV the backing 5 is penetrated by pointed brads or pins 8, the heads 9 of which lie between the backing and the plate 2.

As shown, the target is supported by a pair of three sided or U-shaped yoke-like standards or legs l0 connected at their ends to the lower corners of said target by friction hinge devices H. Each of these friction hinge devices H includes, as shown in Fig. III, a headed pivot bolt I2; the nut I3 of which constitutes an adustable abutment for a helical spring M which bears upon a hinge arm l5secured to the side edge of the target and thus holds the interpivoted parts under frictional restraint. By virtue of being shaped Having thus described my invention, I claim:

Game apparatus comprising a plain cardboard missile-disc, adapted to be propelled by a stroke of a golf-club against its edge, and a target therefor faced with projecting bristles of such length and resiliency and so spaced as to impale, receive amongst them, and hold the margin of the plain cardboard missile-disc itself, and adapted thus to retain and support it where it strikes.

MITCHELL G. ROSENGARTEN. 

